Career Development Workshop
Edificio Feuga | Rúa de Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s/n, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
Target audience: CiQUS PhD students and postdocs
Duration: Two full days
No. participants 16
Format In person (Santiago de Compostela) | Location: Edificio Feuga | Rúa de Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s/n, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
Dates April 25 & 26, 2022 (10.00-18.00 each day)
Language: English
Workshop Goal
The goal of this workshop on career development for scientists is to give participants a competitive edge in the job market both by developing an intellectual framework for making informed career choices, and by providing practical help with the application and selection process, be it within or outside the academic environment.
Workshop Content
- Skills, interests and values: why are you doing science and what for?
- Identifying opportunities: mapping the job market for academics
- Developing your competence profile: finding out and expressing what you are good at
- Decision making theory: how to make the right choices for the right reasons
- Creating a competitive CV: how to get on the shortlist
- The job interview: a clear framework to finding the right match
- Taking action: tools and tips to kick off your career.
Training Methods
This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability, we work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop.
Trainers
Dr Gavin Lucas PhD is director of ThePaperMill, and a scientist with 13 years of experience as a biomedical researcher, and 12 years of experience as an academic author’s editor, consultant and trainer. In addition to his own solid track-record as a publishing scientist on national, European and international research projects, as an academic author’s editor and consultant, he has helped plan, critique, and polish over 450 original scientific articles for dozens of institutes in diverse fields, as well as dozens of H2020 and Horizon Europe proposals. He also has extensive experience as a trainer in scientific writing and other transferable skills for researchers, and provides consultancy on training and scientific productivity at numerous academic institutes, public agencies, charitable foundations, and
private companies.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinlucas
Dr Tobias Maier PhD is Deputy Director of the National Institute for Science Communication in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has a PhD in biochemistry and a ten-year track record in academic research, funding acquisition, and publishing in high impact journals such as cell or science. He has extensive experience as a trainer at workshops for scientists on diverse topics, including scientific writing, online science communication, career development, leadership, and other transferrable skills.